Rug-holder.



PATENTED JUNE 6, 1905'.

L P WOOD RUG HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT, 22, 1902.

as) Z4 UNITED STATES Patented June 6, 1905.

LYMAN P. WOOD, OF BURLINGTON, VERMONT.

RUG-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters'latent No. 791,851, dated June 6,1905.

Application filed. September 22, 1902. Serial No. 124,381.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LYMAN P. W001), a citizen of the United States, anda resident of the city of Burlington, in the county of Ohittenden andState of Vermont, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inRug- Holders, of which the following is a full, clear,

and exact description, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to rug-holders, and has for its object to providean improved device of this character in which the rugs, samples ofcarpet, or other fabrics may be displayed or exhibited to the intendedpurchaser with a less amount of labor and time, and which will provide ameans for displaying such articles in an extremely small space andthrough means of which the articles will be neatly kept.

In the following specification my invention will be referred to as arug-holder for the sake of clearness and brevity, although the same maybe used in any place where it is desired to display rugs, portieres,carpets, linoleum, fabrics, or other goods or merchandise of similarcharacter. Such a device is shown in the accompanying drawings, in whichlike reference-numerals refer to like parts, and in Which-- Figure 1 isa front elevation of my improved rug-holder, showing the same in opencondition and showing rugs suspended therefrom. Fig. 2 is a sideelevation of one of the individual holders. Fig. 3 is a detailperspective view of a portion of one of the standards and showing theclamping-blocks separated. Fig. 4 is adetail sectional view of one ofthe standards and its lower bearing. Fig. 5 is a similar view showingthe upper bearing.

Referring now in detail to the drawings, 1 represents the baseclamping-blocks, preferably screwed, but which may be nailed orotherwise suitably secured to the floor of the room in which the rugsare to be exhibited. The clamping-blocks 1 are provided withsemicircular recesses 2, which register when said blocks 1 are inassembled position and form suitable sockets, at the bottom of which Iinsert loosely a supporting-washer 3, supporting the standard 4, whichis cut away at its lower end to forma pivot 5, havinga'protecting-collar 6, comprising an annular band of iron or other metaldriven onto the pivot and adapted to rotate in the socket formed by therecesses 2. Thelower end of the collar 6 escillates on washer 3.

There may be any suitable number of standards 4. At their upper endsthey are formed with pivots 4*, which are not provided with collars, andare pivotally seated in sockets 7 in a strip or block 7 of suitablelength, screwed or nailed to the ceiling of the room or other permanentstructure, Fig. 5. Blocks 7 may be constructed similarly to blocks 1;but this is unnecessary.

Projecting outwardly from a point near the upper end of each of thestandards 4 is a horizontal supporting-arm 8, braced by the diagonal rodor bar 9, extending from a point near the lower end of the standard 4 toa point near the outer end of the arm 8. per side of the supporting arm8 I provide a series of sharpened brads or nails 10.

The use of -my invention is as follows: In attaching a rug to the holderone end of the rug is thrown over a supporting-arm 8 and the brads ornails 10 are forced through the rug, the same being held on the brads ornails bythe weight of the rug. In the use of the holder preferably tworugs will be hung on each supporting-arm. The diagonal brace rod or arm9 will greatly strengthen the supporting-arms 8, so that they will holdvery heavy rugs. Preferably the clamping-blocks and the upperbearing-block are arranged in the exhibiting-room on the diagonal of oneof thewalls of the room. The advantage of this will be that a betterView of the exhibited rugs will be created in a limited space. A furtheradvantage will be to add, much to the strength of the exhibitor, sinceit lessens considerably the strain when the arms are extended. Thismakes it possible to construct the exhibitor of lighter and lessexpensive material, which would not be possible were the blocks arrangedat a right angle to the walls of the room. By mounting the standards inthe manner describedthat is, on a pivot at each end-the standards may beeasily turned in their sockets, so that the rugs sup- On the up- Tooported on the supporting-arms may be easily and carefully handled.

With the construction described the supporting-arms maybe thrown backinto the closed position, as shown at the right in Fig. 1, in whichposition each arm, and consequently the rug supported thereon, projectout beyond the next succeeding arm and rug, so that the intendedpurchaser might inspect a group of rugs at a glance without it beingnecessary to disarrange them.

By mounting the standards in the manner described it is possible toremove one or more of the standards from the clamping-blocks and theupper bearing-block without disarranging or removing the otherstandards. This is done through the removal of one of theclamping-blocks, Fig. 3, whereupon the standard and its collar 6 may bereadily extracted from the recesses of the clampingblocks remaining inposition and the pivot 4* removed from its socket 7.

Suitable indicating-marks, such as price or number tickets, may beplaced on the margin of the rugs in position so that when the holder isin closed position these tickets may be readily examined by the salesmanso that he can select without delay the rug he desires to exhibit to thepurchaser.

Having thus described my invention, the following is what I claim as newtherein and dcsire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. In a rug-holder, the combination with clamping blocks, havingrecesses therein adapted to register to form a socket, and a topbearing-block of a supporting-standard pivoted in said bearing-block, acollar on said standard seated in said socket and a'washcr in saidsocket supporting said collar.

2. In a rug-holder, the combination with clamping-blocks having recessestherein adapted to register to form a socket and a top bearing-blockhaving sockets therein, of a supporting-standard engaging a-socket insaid bearing-block, and a collar on said standard seated in saidclamping-blocks.

LYMAN P. WOOD.

Witnesses:

M. A. BINGHAM, JOHN S. W ILKINS.

